Kurt Vonnegut’s classic novel “Slaughterhouse-Five” was the main attraction Saturday as the James Madison College hosted its seventh annual Marathon Book Reading. Students and faculty read the book cover-to-cover Saturday.
Comedian Brian Regan will perform live at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday at Wharton Center’s Cobb Great Hall.
Mac’s Bar, 2700 E. Michigan Ave., in Lansing, will be hosting local band Souldub at 9:30 p.m. Saturday.
MSU’s University Activities Board will host their eighth annual Battle of the Bands at 9 p.m. Saturday at the International Center.
Throughout the years, Pilobolus has improvised and choreographed more than 100 works, and its performance Wednesday night at Wharton Center’s Cobb Great Hall featured a selection of six of these works, some that were new in 2009 and another hailing from 1971, the year of Pilobolus’ conception.
Reno’s East Fire and Ice Winterfest, 1310 Abbot Road, will be home to many musical performances by local entertainment artists Jerry Sprague and Don Middlebrook, and there is no cover charge.
With more than a four-month delay by Paramount Pictures, “Shutter Island” finally hit the silver screen. Truly, good things do come to those who wait.
After Jamie Rahrig began brainstorming many ideas with MSU music therapist Cindy Edgerton, the monthly event Together … Let’s Jam! was born to explore the benefits of musical therapy for teenagers with disabilities.
About 25 performers will be debuting their talent of movement, dance and art at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in The Residential College in the Arts and Humanities Auditorium of Synder-Phillips Hall. One performance will be put on each day throughout the week through Sunday, with two concerts on Saturday.
Writer Diane Glancy will be speaking at 5 p.m. Monday in the North Conference Room (W449) of the Main Library.Glancy was born in 1941 of a Cherokee father and a German/English mother. As the author of “Asylum in the Grasslands,” “The Dance Partner” and others, her work has won many literary prizes, including the Native American Prose Award.
The MSU Asian Studies Center will host a lecture titled Globalization and the Social Life of Human Organs at 4 p.m. Tuesday in Room 303 of the International Center.
The Pilobolus dance company will be performing at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Wharton Center’s Cobb Great Hall.
Organizers of the MSU Religious Studies Film Series will present the movie “I Have Already Given My Heart Away” at 3 p.m. Wednesday in Room 204 of the Natural Science Building.
More than 300 chocolate lovers united at the 21st annual Chocolate Benefit Party hosted by the MSU Museum. Starting as a small event inside the home of the museum’s former director, the benefit has evolved throughout the years into a large event that has been held at Kellogg Center for more than 15 years.
MSU alumnus Don Gonyea’s passion for the news followed him from Detroit to Washington, D.C., where he is the National Public Radio correspondent in the White House. He came back to East Lansing this week to discuss his professional career in the School of Journalism’s annual lecture series.
A salsa band will play at 8 p.m. today at the Hart Recital Hall in the Music Building.
To celebrate the MSU School of Journalism’s 100-year anniversary, the school is featuring speakers Don Gonyea of National Public Radio and Kathy Barks Hoffman of The Associated Press in a lecture entitled New Technology and Political Coverage at 4:30 p.m. today.
Regret, blame, addiction, betrayal and infidelity — no family is perfect, and the Weston family in Steppenwolf’s “August: Osage County” certainly is no exception.
The MSU’s Vietnamese Student Association celebrates and educates about the lunar new year last Tuesday in Holden Hall.
MSU alumnus Peter Ohren speaks on why he wrote his fourth book and what inspired him.